Coffee Party Holds Rally

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The
local chapter of the Coffee Party political movement will hold a
rally Saturday to commemorate the eighth anniversary of the Iraq War,
and call for reallocating war funds to a more useful domestic
purpose.

The
event, entitled the Patriotic American Peace Rally, will be held from
1-3 p.m. at downtown's Fountain Square. It will feature various
speakers
including an Iraq war veteran, along with live music.

“Coffee
Party Cincinnati is encouraging Cincinnatians to take a stand against
war, violence and hate,” the group said in a prepared statement.
“We believe that war is not the way to resolve conflicts in the
21st Century and that our nation's resources would be better invested
in putting Americans back to work rebuilding our infrastructure and
improving the lives of the American people.”

Group
leaders say they've invited
other groups from across the political spectrum because they believe
“there are people on the left and the right that oppose the war in
Iraq and our bipartisan foreign policy which has America policing the
world.”

The
national Coffee
Party movement was founded by Annabel Park, a nonprofit worker who
studied philosophy at Boston University and political theory at the
University of Oxford in Britain. She started a Facebook group called
“Join the Coffee Party” in response to media coverage that she
believes wrongly cast the Tea Party as a symbol of America.

The
organization's initial kickoff was held in March 2010. For more information, contact Sheli Delaney via e-mail coffeepartycincinnati@gmail.com.